Improved clothes-frame



UNITED STATES PATENT 'OEEICECy `HENRY BUELL, OF MOUNT MORRIS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HENRY A. GREEN, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVED CLOTH ES-FRAM E.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,069, dated June 7, 1864.

To all whom it may concer-71,.'

Be it known that I, HENRY BUELL, of Mount Morris, in the county of Livingston and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Portable Clothes Rack and Frame; and I dohereby declare that the followi n gis afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part ot' this specication, in which- Figure lis a front view of my invention; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference in-both views indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved portable clothes rack and frame designed for holding clothes after being ironed, and also at other times or Whenever convenience requires, designed more especially for laundry and bed-room use.

The invention consists in a peculiar combination and arrangement of bars, brackets, pegs, and pivoted arms, as will be hereinafter described. c

A A' represent two parallel bars, through which, near each end, rods B pass, with nuts a on each end. On these rods there are placed bars C, the latter being allowed to turn freely on the rods, and having between them washers b, which serve to keep thebars on each rod B at proper distances apart. The rods B pass through the bars C near one endof them, and the latter are ot' such a length that when folded inward the outer end of those on one rod B will come in contact with the Washers b on the other rod B, the bars and washers being so arranged that the bars of one rod B .may fold between those ofthe other rod. This will be fully understood by referring to Fig. 1. On the upper bar, A, there are secured two metal brackets, D D, which are perforated to admit of the devicebeing suspended or hung up on nails in the wall of an apartment, and the lower bar, A', is provided with a series of pegs or pins, E, on which clothes may be susv pended.

NVhen the 'evice is in use, the bars C are pulled outward at each side and clothes suspended upon them, and clothes or other articles may-suspend on the pegs or pins E without interfering with those on the bars C.` When the device is not in use, the bars may be folded inward, as shown in Fig. l, so as to be entirely out of the way, and, as the device is suspended on nails or pins driven in the wall, it may be moved or hung up in dit'erent places, as convenience ma;T require. rlhe bars G may be clamped more or less tight on the rods B by screwing up the nuts a at either or both ends of said rods.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

The combination ot` the bars A A', rods B B, washers b b, pivoted arms C G (J, brackets D, and pegs E, all constructed and arranged as and for the purposes specified.

HENRY BUELL.

Witnesses A. B. MILLERD, ABRAHAM WIGG. 

